EXHIBITS
AN INTEGRATED FUTURE
Technology intends to enhance our lives and workflow, but its exponential growth disempowers us. It makes our lives more tense and surveilled, and it has detrimental effects on our environment. An Integrated Future (MICA x McDonogh School) envisions a speculative reality where artists collaborate with technology to enhance their practice rather than feel controlled by it. The possibilities this show will create can help inform students about how they themselves can use technology for their betterment. Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. As technology continues to evolve, it is important for us to be in charge of our own future by learning and using technology responsibly to not replace human work or harm our world.
Creative director, curator
Collaboration with MICA’s Office of Mission and Community Learning x McDonogh School’s Tuttle Gallery
ÉNOUEMENT
By taking over a space, whether it be an office or an exhibition or something murky in between, the space itself becomes the art and a motion to make the moment last longer. Time is fleeting, though placing art demands a standstill moment in the midst of what doesn't last. The cycle goes; breathing life into objects you collect and surround yourself with just to breathe out and step into the next moment in time. Turning a space into a home can be a greater act of finding solace than many care to admit or recognize in a transient and turbulent era.
Design leader, co-curator/juror
Juried exhibition: Office of Undergraduate Studies
ROOTED/GROWING
Celebrating two centuries of creativity, Rooted/Growing honors the intertwined histories of MICA and the city of Baltimore, whose relationship is defined by resilience and mutual transformation. Developed by the Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS), the exhibition brings together artists, creatives, and community leaders in a vivid dialogue of the past, present, and future of MICA and the greater Baltimore community. Through the exhibition and its public programs, viewers are invited to reflect on MICA’s legacy and continue conversations about what it means to learn, create, and sustain art in Baltimore today. Each aspect of the exhibition invites viewers to encounter these histories not as static memories, but as cross-pollinations and active collaborations that span generations and communities. In doing so, EDS illuminates the memories, stories, and histories of all people who have contributed to the shared experience of the college and all of those to come.
Lead designer, co-curator
MICA Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS)
MOMENT TO MESSAGE
MOMENT TO MESSAGE expresses our perspectives and promotes knowledge exchange. Through this, we bridge gaps in our current understanding of the world. What is a personal or communal experience you speak through your artistic practice, and how can it add to collective growth? What information would you like to communicate to the world? Through this exhibition, we invite all artists at MICA to identify their place within the community and use it to move forward.
Creative director, co-curator
MICA Office of Mission and Community Learning
DUALITY
DUALITY explores our partial versus our whole self. Do societal categories restrict us to prioritize one part of ourselves, or can we live life fully understanding & accepting how our multiple facets change our perception of the world? How do we embrace ourselves as complete, yet dynamic individuals?
Creative director, co-curator
MICA Office of Mission and Community Learning
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